Many things are
affected by the culture that they lye in. One thing that I chose to
write about is sports. Sports are greatly affected the culture. A
matter of fact, one sport was invented because of different cultures
clashing. Soccer was played by cultures for some recreation and
leisure. Soccer evolved from one culture conquering another, and then
playing with the skulls of the ones they conquered. It is now evolved
into the most popular sport in the world. In many South American
countries, soccer is the most played sport due to its popularity
among its people. So the culture of these countries dictate what
sports will be popular. American football would not be a very popular
sport because it is not in their culture to enjoy such a sport.

The article I
chose to do was titled “Baseball in Japan,” written by Eldon E.
Snyder and Elmer A. Spreitzer. First, these authors described that
baseball was first introduced to some Tokyo University students by
way of their American professor in 187(pg. 46).

It is extremely
popular in Japan, especially at the high school level, where at one
tournament it “lasts ten days and draws about 500,000 spectators in
addition to a nationwide television audience” (pg. 46).

A major
characteristic of Japanese culture is loyalty. This loyalty is
transferred to the game of baseball, also. Unlike American baseball,
players and managers are loyal to their team and organization.
American baseball is all about free agents and trades and how much
the individual can get. One of Japanese baseball’s characteristics
is for the players to think of team first. Only selected American
players are allowed to play in the Japanese leagues. “The Japanese
recruit the Americans with serious attention paid to personal
character and personality traits” (pg. 47).

Most Americans
cannot understand the Japanese culture. Their culture consists of
things such as hard work, loyalty, teamwork and cohesiveness. These
people have their own separate views on different things; but these
views are ‘put on the back burner’ when work begins.

American culture
is very different to this culture because of the many different
people that live in the United States. The teamwork philosophy is not
prevalent in the work world. In American baseball, the individual
seeks the most he can get out of a deal-salary, holdouts, etc. “In
Japanese baseball, doing your own thing is strongly
stigmatized-salary disputes, asking for individual exemptions from
team policies, temper tantrums, moodiness, complaining clubhouse
lawyers, attacking the umpire, criticizing the manager, mouthing-off
to the media, bad-mouthing teammates, violation of training rules,
fist fights, and ad nauseam” (pg. 49). In our society, the
aforementioned acts are almost essential to American baseball.
Although people complain about contracts and irreverent behavior,
these things are what keep the sport interesting to the American
public.

As you can see,
culture and people’s values greatly affect the sports that are
played in a certain civilization. The respectful, quiet, and hard
working society of Japan influence Japanese baseball just as much as
the individualized and lazy society of America influence American
baseball.

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